Paperless-ngx – Document Management System

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Document management with Paperless-ngx

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Paperless-ngx skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bidewio/better-openclaw in skills/paperless-ngx-docs/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Paperless-ngx transforms physical documents into searchable digital archives with OCR, tagging, and automated workflows.

  • GitHub: github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx (25 000+ ⭐)
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Security: Community-maintained. No malware.

Environment Variables

VariableDescription
{{PAPERLESS_URL}}Base URL
{{PAPERLESS_TOKEN}}API authentication token

Usage Examples

List documents

curl -s "{{PAPERLESS_URL}}/api/documents/" \
  -H "Authorization: Token {{PAPERLESS_TOKEN}}"

Upload a document

curl -s -X POST "{{PAPERLESS_URL}}/api/documents/post_document/" \
  -H "Authorization: Token {{PAPERLESS_TOKEN}}" \
  -F "document=@receipt.pdf"

Search documents

curl -s "{{PAPERLESS_URL}}/api/documents/?query=invoice" \
  -H "Authorization: Token {{PAPERLESS_TOKEN}}"

AI Agent Tips

  • Automatic OCR on uploaded documents (Tesseract).
  • AI-powered auto-tagging and correspondent matching.
  • Consumption folder watches for new documents automatically.
  • Full REST API for programmatic document management.

Signals

GitHub stars
58
Forks
6
Last commit
Aug 2026
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Item type
skill
Key
paperless-ngx-docs
Source
github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw